Hey Kurt have you ever been to Auschwitz, Dachau or Wewelsburg?
On this day during W.W. 2
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18 December 1944
Adm. Halsey’s 3rd Fleet encounters a typhoon northeast of Samar. Destroyers USS Hull (DD 350), USS Spence (DD 512), and USS Monaghan (DD 354) capsized and went down with practically all hands, while a cruiser, five aircraft carriers, and three destroyers suffered serious damage.
Approximately 790 officers and men were lost or killed, with another 80 injured.
USS Massachusetts BB-59 endured the “Halsey Typhoon” dealing with winds up to 120 MPH and near 60 foot tall waves!
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@captainwalker yea pretty brutal. Not much said about it in most USA WWII books
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@captainwalker My grandfather was in the US 2nd ID in the Ardennes on day one of the Bulge.
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December 21 1944
Private Charles Preston, of Nicholasville, Kentucky, brushes snow from a 30-caliber machine gun mounted on his jeep.
His unit is moving against the German counterattack in the Ardennes during the ‘Battle of the Bulge’ which is barely a week old.(Image and description courtesy of the Truman Presidential Museum and Library)
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Lighted MERRY XMAS sign behind 65-ft. Christmas tree lit up by Italian bulbs strung up by Special Services & the 53rd Signal Battalion at the top of Radicosa Pass at 2500 ft. elevation, note direction signs to Bologna as MP stands guard, in the Apennine Mountains Italy - December 1944
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@captainwalker I can’t read the name of the town to the right . Can anyone else ?
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@witt I think it is Sessonoro…maybe an American spelling for Sassinoro
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@captainwalker thanks , but can’t be that town as that is at least 250 miles south, near Naples . Oh well! Doesn’t matter .
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captainwalker '23 '21 '20 '19 '17 '16 '15 '13last edited by captainwalker Dec 25, 2021, 2:29 PM Dec 25, 2021, 2:29 PM
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General 6 Stars '22 '21 '20 '19 '18 '17 '16 '15 '14 '13 Customizerlast edited by General 6 Stars Dec 25, 2021, 2:49 PM Dec 25, 2021, 2:48 PM
Ha ha anything is possible. Merry Christmas captainwalker if u celebrate it.
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@general-5-stars thanks Merry Christmas to you also
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@kaleu said in On this day during W.W. 2:
March 5, 1943: first flight of the Gloster Meteor, the Allies’ only operational jet plane during WW2, from RAF Cranwell.
While the Meteor was in much greater use during WW2, the P-80 Shooting Star had: “two pre-production models … see very limited service in Italy just before the end of World War II”
Wiki P-80 Shooting Star-Midnight_Reaper
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@midnight_reaper I had never heard that. Thanks
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@midnight_reaper Thanks, I was not aware of that.
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